Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-09-30

estimated to cost $3.50, 900. The con-
tract for the County Courthouse has
been let at 1915, 900, but before the
edifice is put up and furnished it will
swallow up in all $500, 900. The pub
lie schools are to be greatly increased
in capacity and efficiency at an outlay
Of $175, 900.
. In the way OF private enterprise the
two big hotels take rank of all others.
A gentleman connected with the Main
street hotel is now at the East for
the purpose of attending to the prelim-
inaries, of the affair. The projectors
expect to spend $750,000 on this.
Then s3the st. Vincent people are
moving forward on their hostelry,
which will call for an expenditure of
5000, 900.
The aggregate of the above items is
over s6,OOO,OOO. And these projects
are in no wise dim, visionary or un-
certain, nor are they projected for the
distant future. All of them are pres
ent facts, work going on on some OF
them and active preparations making
for others. The City Water Company
has spent during the past year about
$3.50, 600 on their system. They ex-
pect to spend more than that during
the coming year. Among their pro-
jected improvements are two mains
from the reservoir to the plaza, which
are respectively twenty-four and thirty
inches in diameter. They have
bough. five hundred tons Of pipe for
use in the city, and this will all be
laid as expeditiously as possible.
One gas company has just run mains
through nearly every street in the
city, and it has within few days in
creased its capital stock by a few hun
dreds of thousands of dollars in order
to materially enlarge its enterprise.
There are two other companies which
have obtained franchises to lay gas
through the streets, but these have not
done any work yet. The railroad
companies have in mind the building
of iron bridges over the river this win
ter; and railroad building is at red
heat in the county now, and will be at
white heat in few weeks more. A
small gang of men is working north
from Santa Ana on the connection Of
the California Central between this
city and San Diego. The line passes
through Anaheim, Santa Fe Springs,
heretofore known as Iron Sulphur
Springs, and then through Los Nietos
and the Laguna to this city. The length
OF the road is about thirty-fve miles,
and it will be running before New
Years day. The Rapid Transit road
between this city and Monrovia will
be begun soon, and it will probably be
extended to Long Beach. Roads are
projected in all parts of the county,
and street.car lines in all the towns in
the county. These are enterprises
which all the counties Of Southern
California share in, and all their pros
perity is partly ours.
Returning to this city the Council is
now discussing the laying out and
planting of parks, a movement in the
right direction, and one which would
put into circulation over 100000.
Any intelligent person who will glance
his eye along the projects outlined
above will easily see 500, 100000
in them first and last. There is
also the newest and greatest of all the
exploits Of the immediate day, the
road to Salt Lake, referred to more at
length in our columns to-day. 1t will
add some 1O,OO0,O 900 to the estimates
before given. Now it is too obvious
fact to call for comment, that all this
expenditure Of money will stimulate
and call for private enterprises equal
to at least as much more money.
Houses must certainly be built, and
business houses will be still in de-
mand until $50 0,OOO, 900 will not exceed
the cash outlays for all the various
private and public improvements in
and about Los Angeles in the next few
months. 1t looks like prosperous
times still ahead of us.